The survey, commencing in May 2000, is the first broad based national recreational fishing survey of its kind in Australia. While primarily designed to provide biologic and fisher participant data, it provides a platform for the collection of data applicable to economic policy questions.
The survey methodology is based on...
Amendment 80 of the Bering & Sea Aleutian Island Groundfish Fisheries Management Plan instituted groundfish retention standards (GRS) with the goal of reducing discards, which had been historically high for a particular fleet. The GRS continue to be a subject of regulatory attention as recent discard levels are markedly below...
The Alaska non-pollock multi-species catcher processor trawl fishery, referred to as the Amendment 80 fishery since 2008, is an endlessly fascinating subject from the perspective of an economist. A diverse group of companies and vessels, emphasizing different species mixes from a multi-species ecosystem, targets fish across the Eastern Bering Sea,...
Three speakers give their impressions of the conference with praise as well as suggestions for the future. The inter-disciplinary nature of the conference was praised as wellas the attempt to integrate non-economists and those outside of the academy. One suggested that fisheries cannot be properly understood and cannot be properly...
Over the past several years we have been developing Fishery Performance Indicators (FPIs) to measure the degree of success fisheries systems have in achieving environmental, economic and community outcomes. We have also developed indicators of key input factors. Among the input factors we have explicitly developed indicators for women’s participation and leadership...
This paper considers the modelling of aggregate price and quantity of aquaculture production in
the European countries since mid-80s. In general, the evolution of aquaculture production only
considers the evolution of total value and total weight. The heterogeneity of aquaculture
production is neglected. As a consequence, the unit value ('price')...
Fisheries sector plays an important role in Nigeria economy. Contribution of the sector to the nation's economy can be increased if challenges in the industry are minimized and the opportunities explored. Large scale aquaculture, an economic activity earning people a living is a very important industry encompassing fish traders, fish...
We describe the first effort at creating a global ex-vessel fish price database. We then demonstrate potential applications of the database by linking it to the Sea Around Us project's spatially defined catch database, which makes it possible to attach catch values to species both in time and space. There...